Re: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

2009-04-20 Thread Ben Crisford
I couldn't agree more. As I said in an e-mail yesterday (which I fear no-one read :-/) it would be so awkward to decide who gets in and who doesn't. In my opinion the reason why we're so disorganised is because we have too many contributors. Don't get me wrong, thats a great thing, but what i'

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 46, Issue 57

2009-04-20 Thread bret sheppard
f a 5-person (or so) art council to be made up of > > currently trusted members. > > Agreed. > > What this team needs more than anything else are some defined goals > and projects. Right now, it's mostly just people throwing things > against a wall to see what sticks. The steps you pr

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

2009-04-20 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Sunday 19 April 2009 18:52:47 Cory K. wrote: > Apart from the title this email aims to take a no-holds-barred look at > who we are and how we are put together. > > I have been looking at ways to give this team more structure and noticed > something we lack in concrete leadership or anyone with a

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

2009-04-20 Thread Saleel
Kenneth Wimer wrote: > I do want to see things change, but I want to 1,000% certain that we > are doing the right thing before we change *anything*. > > > -- > Kenneth The only way this is possible, is if we adopt a working policy from someone else and then slowly organically mold it around our s

Re: [ubuntu-art] Hanso Theme

2009-04-20 Thread James Schriver
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 20:20 -0700, Smartboy wrote: > It reminds me of dark chocolate, and now I am craving it. :( > > Good work, though! It is a very good job! > > One thing from your screenshot, are there two different menubar backgrounds? > > smartboy > Thank you very much for a response.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

2009-04-20 Thread Ben Crisford
>Right, there is a new moderated email list waiting to be used. Once we know >exactly what and how we want to use it, we can. I hope by moderated anyone can join, but is moderated? Because the whole philosophy of ubuntu is freedom, and the community running it to as much of an extent as they ca

Re: [ubuntu-art] Hanso Theme

2009-04-20 Thread Smartboy
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:28 AM, James Schriver wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 20:20 -0700, Smartboy wrote: > >> It reminds me of dark chocolate, and now I am craving it. :( >> >> Good work, though! It is a very good job! >> >> One thing from your screenshot, are there two different menubar backgr

[ubuntu-art] newest member - Christina Kokott

2009-04-20 Thread Kenneth Wimer
Hi all, Let's give a hearty ubuntu-artwork-team welcome to one of the newest members of the team, Christina Kokott. Christina is on the design team overseeing the redesign of all portals and should be first point of contact for web queries. -- Kenneth -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@li

Re: [ubuntu-art] Hanso Theme

2009-04-20 Thread James Schriver
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 06:38 -0700, Smartboy wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:28 AM, James Schriver wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 20:20 -0700, Smartboy wrote: > > > >> It reminds me of dark chocolate, and now I am craving it. :( > >> > >> Good work, though! It is a very good job! > >> > >> One

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

2009-04-20 Thread Kenneth Wimer
On Monday 20 April 2009 15:29:46 Ben Crisford wrote: > >Right, there is a new moderated email list waiting to be used. Once we > > know exactly what and how we want to use it, we can. > > I hope by moderated anyone can join, but is moderated? Anyone can join by contributing to ubuntu artwork. Non-

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

2009-04-20 Thread Ben Crisford
> Anyone can join by contributing to ubuntu artwork. Non-members can post to the list but it will be moderated to avoid unnecessary distractions. The old list will still exist and be > used much as it is today. As Saleel pointed it, the lists serve different purposes but are equally important.

Re: [ubuntu-art] Ubuntu Powder

2009-04-20 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Cory K. wrote: > @Matthew > > It's been about 3 weeks since the last word on this. This was an idea > with alot of steam that has seem to fallen down. Like all of us I know > you have many duties but there was a lot of interest in this and I hope > you haven't mis

Re: [ubuntu-art] newest member - Christina Kokott

2009-04-20 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 15:44 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: > Let's give a hearty ubuntu-artwork-team welcome to one of the newest > members of the team, Christina Kokott. Welcome Christina :) -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mai

Re: [ubuntu-art] newest member - Christina Kokott

2009-04-20 Thread Anton Kerezov
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Kenneth Wimer wrote: > Let's give a hearty ubuntu-artwork-team welcome to one of the newest > members of the team, Christina Kokott. Christina is on the design team > overseeing the redesign of all portals and should be first point of contact > for web queries. >

Re: [ubuntu-art] newest member - Christina Kokott

2009-04-20 Thread Steve Dodier
Welcome ! -- Steve Dodier OpenPGP : 0E5E4ECB IRC : SiDi on irc.freenode.net Jabber : s...@im.apinc.org steve.dod...@gmail.com https://launchpad.net/~sidi -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

2009-04-20 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 14:25 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: > However, I do think that people need a place to start, find info, > discuss, etc. How do we fill this gap? Wiki and forum? > I do want to see things change, but I want to 1,000% certain that we > are doing the right thing before we chang

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

2009-04-20 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 21:52 -0400, John Baer wrote: > My suggestion is to improve our processes. I would divide our > submissions into categories. Submit to one, or submit to all. Categories > would be bound to a series (e.g. Incoming/Karmic). > > * Backgrounds (e.g. Incoming/Karmic/Backgrounds)

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

2009-04-20 Thread Cory K.
Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 14:25 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: > >> However, I do think that people need a place to start, find info, >> discuss, etc. How do we fill this gap? >> > > Wiki and forum? IMO, the unmoderated ubuntu-art-discuss list. -Cory K. -- ubuntu-art m

Re: [ubuntu-art] Gettin' our @$$3$ in gear. or, a team restructuring.

2009-04-20 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 14:07 -0400, Cory K. wrote: > Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 14:25 +0200, Kenneth Wimer wrote: > > > >> However, I do think that people need a place to start, find info, > >> discuss, etc. How do we fill this gap? > >> > > > > Wiki and forum? > > IMO,

Re: [ubuntu-art] newest member - Christina Kokott

2009-04-20 Thread Christina Kokott
Kenneth Wimer wrote: Hi all, Let's give a hearty ubuntu-artwork-team welcome to one of the newest members of the team, Christina Kokott. Christina is on the design team overseeing the redesign of all portals and should be first point of contact for web queries. -- Kenneth Hello Every

Re: [ubuntu-art] Hanso Theme

2009-04-20 Thread Smartboy
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:52 AM, James Schriver wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 06:38 -0700, Smartboy wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:28 AM, James Schriver wrote: >> > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 20:20 -0700, Smartboy wrote: >> > >> >> It reminds me of dark chocolate, and now I am craving it. :( >>

Re: [ubuntu-art] newest member - Christina Kokott

2009-04-20 Thread kevin sekniqi
Welcome! On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Christina Kokott < christina.kok...@canonical.com> wrote: > Kenneth Wimer wrote: > > Hi all, > > > Let's give a hearty ubuntu-artwork-team welcome to one of the newest > members of the team, Christina Kokott. Christina is on the design team > overseein